Possible Horror RPG With Renovated Grimoire Engine

[Zed Duke of Banville]

Coming in 2047 ... Armoire: Heralds of the Eldritch Abomination

 

[ColCol]

Wait, I felt like Cleve posted in the Stygian forum that this game was no longer happening.

 

[Great Deceiver]

It would be awesome. For bonus points Cleveland Mark Blakemore, get the rights to some Univers Zero music:

 

[Jaesun]

In Slaughter Natives would be my choice, but that is highly unlikely.

 

[Roderick]

Incline surely cometh

 

[Sykar]

So release date would be around 2037 considering your current track record Cleve. I can hardly wait.

 

[Cleveland Mark Blakemore]

So release date would be around 2037 considering your current track record Cleve. I can hardly wait.

That was before I purchased 98% of all assets on the Unity store.

 

[Cleveland Mark Blakemore]

Wait, I felt like Cleve posted in the Stygian forum that this game was no longer happening.

I don't think the isometric version is a go at this time. The same format as Grimoire could be a winner in a new direct color engine.

 

[Iznaliu]

That was before I purchased 98% of all assets on the Unity store.

Using Unity assets isn't seen as a good thing.

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

 

[Iznaliu]

Someone should photoshop Cleve's head onto that horror.

 

[Morality Games]

I love horror movies for example, but I have a hard time if anybody would ask me which was the last time something scared me in a movie. Just throwing in some nice gore won't do it, and honestly I don't know what would.

It takes a stupid person (or a woman) to really get scared by a horror movie. Fear is an instinctual response to perceived danger. If you think a screen is dangerous in any way then you are stupid. No ifs ands or buts about it. It takes suspension of disbelief beyond the normal possible levels to delude yourself into this.

The idea of horror is that it is creepy and then slowly seeps into your soul and becomes disturbing at an instinctive (Id) and philosophical (superego) level. It takes rarely thought about aspects of life that people understand a logical level (the inevitability and finaltude of death) makes you feel experience it emotionally and aesthetically. What people found disturbing about Lovecraft back in the day was that the universe has mystical origins, but the creator(s) are evil and/or morally indifferent. Evil isn't a test of faith that good ultimately triumphs over, but rather evil is the natural mode of existence and hope only exists to prolong and produce more exquisite torment.

Naturally, normal people don't crave that particular aesthetic experience all that much, which is why horror is an unpopular genre.

 

[luj1]

I would play/buy/wait for anything Cleve opts to make. Dude is a footman of incline.

 

[Somberlain]

I believe in the second coming of the Golden Baby.

 

[Iznaliu]

I would play/buy/wait for anything Cleve opts to make. Dude is a footman of incline.

What if it is a literal brick being sold for a million dollars?

 

[Cleveland Mark Blakemore]

I will say this and you are free to believe or disbelieve, it's the truth.

I have a very impressive turn-based step-based RPG engine prototype running in Unity now, worked on it for about 18 hours total over the holidays. Just playing around with it. Using PBR for the textures and all props in the dungeon, looks magnificent.

It will almost certainly become the framework for Grimoire II and since all the RPG logic will be ported over, that means this engine will also be used for the horror RPG. I really believe this spinoff could be a winner.

I spent a lot of time retaining the comic book look of Grimoire in the new engine and I am certain it would be doubly impressive with a horror game and proper lighting.

Got tons and tons of assets collected over the years for a horror RPG and they'd all look good in this engine.

P.S. Dialogue system was up and running in about ten minutes with full editing but the console line text entry is out, replaced by the far more reasonable style used by modern games of selecting responses.

 

[Roguey]

Unity.

 

[Morality Games]

Engine snob.

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

P.S. Dialogue system was up and running in about ten minutes with full editing but the console line text entry is out, replaced by the far more reasonable style used by modern games of selecting responses.

Even better to use Morrowind-style hypertext dialogue.

 

[Cleveland Mark Blakemore]

Screenshots of Grimoire II/Unnamed Lovecraft RPG engine will be forthcoming, I could put some up tonight but all you could see is basic dungeon movement with an NPC and one monster. Going to work some more on the framework and UI.

 

[Dorateen]

Whatever else happens with the dialogue system, I would like if keyboard input could still be used for answering passwords, riddles and such. It is a better test of player accumulated knowledge rather than picking options from a multiple choice question list.

 

[a cut of domestic sheep prime]

So has the GoFundMe for this started yet?

 

[ralphonzo]

If Armoire's funding stretch goal is met, the manual for Grimoire will be released.

 

[Bester]

I really like that you chose to go with the modern tech. We were talking about your next game just a few days ago and I said if he's going with the old engine, it'll take another 18 years. But with Unity, it can be out in 1,5-2. Very nice.

 

[taxalot]

It's not coming out.